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Provisional by design: Frontex data infrastructures and the Europeanization of migration and border control (2023)

Pollozek, Silvan (Author)
Jan-Hendrik Passoth (Author)

Science as Culture
Volume: 32
Issue: 3
Pages: 411-434
Publication date: 2023
Language: English

DOI: 10.1080/09505431.2023.2221304

URI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09505431.2023.2221304

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Technology and government Surveillance Technology and law Security technologies Cyberinfrastructure Data; information Migration Borderlands Design Modern Europe

Data infrastructures for the Frontex joint operations are often only temporary and thus in need of being built up and removed easily, adjustable to changing constellations of security actors, and adaptable to new situations. They need to work through flaws, gaps, and inconsistencies. Still, they fabricate data used for the re-identification of migrants, police investigations, situational pictures, or risk analysis and lead to the intensification of security practices of Frontex. This is accomplished by data infrastructures that are provisional by design. People and forms are used as provisional gateway to interconnect various installed bases of national police and coast guard authorities, informal communication channels and ‘other’ entry fields proliferate around partially standardized classification systems, and ongoing coordination and repair tame and validate the proliferation of data. With this, the data infrastructure of joint border operations hints to a mode of Europeanization that is neither supranational nor intergovernmental. Instead of centralized administrations or fully integrated information systems, it aims for partial harmonization through interconnecting loosely information systems and institutional ecologies of national and EU agencies alike. This causes issues of accountability and requires an analysis that takes the mundane socio-technical conditions of knowledge production into account.

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